Lauren Henderson

March 17, 2017

Mr. Stradling

Period 2.

Chapter 7B Project

This project for Chapter 7B is for all the animals that live on the ocean floor.

These animals are mostly omnivores or herbivores. These animals eat algae and

decaying fish if they are the omnivores. If they are herbivores they only eat algae.

Gastropods are the correct terms for snails and slugs. There are thousands of

types of gastropods. There are sea water slugs,

freshwater slugs, sea water snails, freshwater

snails and many more. Gastropods can basically

be found anywhere in the world in any climate.

Depending on what type of gastropods there are

they are either herbivores or carnivores. Herbivorous gastropods are filter feeders which

means they eat algae on the bottom of the ocean or anywhere else. They also eat fruits,

plants, and vegetables and sometimes dirt when they need minerals.

Bivalves are oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops. Bivalves are animals that live

in an enclosed shell. All these animals are filter feeders which means that they suck in

alot of water from one end and out the other in it leaves after they get all their food.

There are over 20,000 species of bivalves around the world, and probably

thousands not yet discovered. (BioKIDS - Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species,

Bivalvia: INFORMATION) Bivalvia uses the two

shells they have as protection from predators.

Cephalopods are squids and octopuses.

Cephalopods are mostly anything that has multiple

arms with tentacles. These animals can have

anywhere from eight to ninety tentacles.

Cephalopods are carnivores that eat smaller fish, worms,

crustaceans, and other mollusks. Cephalopods live anywhere

with marine life which mean they live in salt water. Cephalopods

move around by shooting out water and moving the direction

they want to go. Another great thing about Cephalopods is they use their tentacles to

walk across the ocean floor.

Lobsters are a long bodied animal with muscular tails. Lobsters bury themselves

under the sand for their protection from predators

and for their homes. Lobsters live on the bottom

of the ocean floor. Lobsters are not red when they

are in the ocean in fact they are anywhere from

blue to green to even yellow. Lobsters only turn

red when they are cooked and in fact when you

have to boil the lobsters they are still alive until they hit the boiling hot water. When

lobsters mate, the eggs aren't fertilized right away. The female carries the male's

sperm and chooses when to fertilize her eggs.(100 Fun Facts About Lobsters).

The women lobsters get to produce their eggs whenever they want.
 Crabs have five legs. Crabs can live in ocean water, fresh water and or on land.

They are one of the few animals that can live in any of three spots and not be harmed.

There are many different types of crabs and many different sizes. Crabs vary in size

from the pea crab, a few millimetres wide, to

the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span of up to

4 metres (13 ft). (Crabs). There about 8-9

different types of crabs. Depending on the age of

the crabs they eat different things because they

are settled in different types of water. When they

get older (2-4 years) they finally move down to deeper waters with the older crabs and

start eating worms, clams, mussels, snails, sea urchins, sand dollars, barnacles, fish

parts and algae.

Shrimp is a small free-swimming crustacean

with an elongated body, typically marine and

frequently harvested for food. Shrimps are

omnivores which mean they eat animals and

plants. They feed on small fish, algae, plant

particles, plankton, decaying plants and will

scavenge parts of dead animals such as snails, clams and fish, and will even eat other

shrimp. There are many different types of shrimps (thousands). With these thousands of

different types of shrimps means they live in many different types of habitats. Anywhere

from the sea floor too rivers and lakes.

 Sea Stars or starfish are shaped depending

on what type of class they live in. There is about two

thousand types of sea stars around the worlds

ocean floors. Star fishes live from tropical water to

the freezing cold water. Sea stars can have up to

forty arms. A fun fact about starfish is that they have

the ability to grow back limbs. Starfish usually eat mollusks because they need to eat

something as slow as they are.

Sea Urchins are usually called the hedgehog of the ocean. They can be very

poisonous. Sea urchins can be cooked but you have to

remove the poison sack. Sea urchins eat algae. Sea

urchins can live in many types of climates with cold or

warm water in all the different types of oceans. They

usually live in rock pools, mud, wave exposed rocks,

coral reefs in kelp forests and in seagrass beds.

Sea Cucumbers look like a sea slug

basically. They can be found in the bottom of the

ocean worldwide. Sea cucumber eat algae and

waste products because they are mostly found on

the ocean floor and scavengers. Sea cucumbers

eat in a very special way they have a tube that's

on there feet surrounding their mouths. There are over twelve hundred sea cucumber

species. They usually live on the ocean floor or on rocks and coral reefs.
 In conclusion these animals are very helpful and important to our worlds oceans.

A lot of these animals eat the algae and scavenger pieces of dead animals so they are

basically cleaning up or ocean. Without these animals our oceans would be crawling

with algae and dead animals.

Website Title: BioKIDS-Kids Inquiry of Diverse Species, Bivalvia: INFORMATION

Article Title: Critter Catalog

Date Accessed: March 22, 2017

Author: Animal Diversity Web

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Article Title: 100 Fun Facts About Lobsters

Date Accessed: March 22, 2017

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